From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 05:07:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA10108 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 05:07:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.119.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA10100 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 05:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ashort@concentric.net) Received: from marconi.concentric.net (marconi [206.173.119.71]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/04/23 5.10)) id IAA07573; Fri, 8 May 1998 08:07:29 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from mariner.cris.com (mariner.concentric.net [206.173.119.83]) by marconi.concentric.net (8.8.8) id IAA15458; Fri, 8 May 1998 08:07:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 08:07:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Short X-Sender: Ashort@mariner.cris.com To: Hile Tuohela cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for SMC EtherPower II ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 May 1998, Ilkka Tuohela wrote: I am a little biased here as I am fortunate enough (THIS time) to able to build an entire computer from the ground up around FreeBSD, please bear with me here. > I would like to try FreeBSD, but I didn't find support for my > second network controller. Is there somewhere a driver, that > card is based on SMC 83c170 chip, it has nothing to do with > EtherPower cards based on DEC tulip chip. > I don't need that card for installing base system, but it really > isn't worth the effort if I can't find a driver later, in normal > use I need both cards. You are going to allow the incompatibility of a single ethernet controller to stop you from implementing FreeBSD? This must be one SPECIAL card... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message